{"id":2577,"date":"2013-02-09T11:13:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T16:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2013-02-10T09:39:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T14:39:38","slug":"sick-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=2577","title":{"rendered":"Sick Cow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is for you Linux users&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Spherical Cow, AKA Fedora 18 wasn&#8217;t running too good today. It became constipated trying to do a normal software update from the X-Window GUI. It said there were 96 updates waiting and then would just hang. I tried several remedies and reboots but the cure was at the command line. It&#8217;s nice to not forget your &#8220;roots&#8221; so to speak. (That&#8217;s a deliberate pun&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>I opened a terminal window and dropped into su super user mode. (Logged in as root) Then &#8220;yum update&#8221; got the flow going. 186 updates including a new kernel rolled down the window. The GUI was certainly stuck.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the GUI after a reboot and it reports no new updates. I&#8217;ll check it in a few days and see if it is working correctly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is for you Linux users&#8230; The Spherical Cow, AKA Fedora 18 wasn&#8217;t running too good today. It became constipated trying to do a normal software update from the X-Window GUI. It said there were 96 updates waiting and then would just hang. I tried several remedies and reboots but the cure was at the command line. It&#8217;s nice to not forget your &#8220;roots&#8221; so to speak. (That&#8217;s a deliberate pun&#8230;) I opened a terminal&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,95],"tags":[28,146,165],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computersoftware","category-linux","tag-computer","tag-fedora","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}